I didn't read it until I was 19 or so.
I love the writing, nothing to do with emo shit. I'm a sucker for postwar American fiction anyway- my favourite author is William Burroughs. I got really excited when And The Hippos...was published.

I'm a literature geek.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:52, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Fuck off, you "love the writing" bollocks. That's like saying you "love the brushstrokes" of a painting.
A shit story is a shit story is a shit story, doess't matter if it's "well written". You sound like my english teacher "But can you at least appreciate it's well written?" No actually, if the story doesn't interest me at all, or in the case of Catcher in the Rye, is FUCKING SHIT, then no, the writing can fucking shit off and do one like your dead hamster.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:59, Reply)

no, the point of fiction isn't necessarily to tell a story.
And I do love the writing. When I read Underworld for the first time there was a sentence in there which was that beautiful that I had to email it to an equally nerdy mate.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:03, Reply)

The point of Catcher in the Rye is a story. That's all, it's not magic realism, which I can appreciate doesn't tell a linear tale
it's just a story about a character who is cunt with no redeeming features, and before you start I don't expect to love all characters to like the story, but he doesn't do anything either. THe story is a shit unlikeable cunt thinks he's better than he is, he leaves home, he gets punched by a pimp for being a cunt and he goes home again. That's it.

There is nothing more to the writing.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:06, Reply)

It would probably be different if he was presented as an anti-hero.
But he isn't even one of them.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:08, Reply)

I want to see Dozer defend it without using the term "post-modern".

( Kroney, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:09, Reply)

I want to see Dozer defend it without every single thing he posts coming out like "I'm a fucking retard with a pet that should only be kept by a six year old"

(Bazongaloid, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:10, Reply)